Podcast: Peter Kreeft on the Philosophy of Ecclesiastes
September 24, 2021 | By: Peter Kreeft

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. This week, Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, during which it is traditional to read one of the most philosophically interesting books of the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes. The narrator of the book, identified by Jewish […]
Read MorePodcast: Shalom Carmy on Jewish Understanding of Human Suffering
July 6, 2021 | By: Shalom Carmy

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. On June 24, 2021, in the middle of the night, part of a 12-story condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, suddenly collapsed. Thus far, eighteen people are confirmed dead and 145 remain […]
Read MorePodcast: Dru Johnson on Biblical Philosophy
July 6, 2021 | By: Dru Johnson

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There’s a distinction often made between two common approaches to the human longing for wisdom. The first approach, philosophy, is considered the unassisted search for wisdom and truth, one that requires boldness, curiosity, and perhaps […]
Read MorePodcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath
May 19, 2021 | By: Sohrab Ahmari

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The hallmark of the American constitutional system was the idea that all men are created equal. Of course, the American regime did not live up to that ambition for centuries, but the ideal of equality […]
Read MoreReading Ruth
May 12, 2021 | By: Leon Kass

The Book of Ruth tells one of the Hebrew Bible’s most beautiful and beloved stories—chronicling how a childless widow from a foreign land rises to become the ancestress of Israel’s greatest king. But as Dr. Leon Kass and his coauthor (and granddaughter) Hannah Mandelbaum demonstrate in their new book, Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the […]
Read MorePodcast: Shlomo Brody on Reclaiming Biblical Social Justice
May 10, 2021 | By: Shlomo Brody

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The idea of social justice marks a cleavage in the American Jewish consciousness. Its advocates believe that social justice represents the very best ethical impulses of Judaism, and that the pursuit of social justice is […]
Read MorePodcast: Mark Gerson on How the Seder Teaches Freedom Through Food
March 18, 2021 | By: Mark Gerson

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In almost a week, Jews all over the world will sit down at their seder tables and retell the story of the Exodus, of the Jewish people’s national deliverance from Egypt. Of course, in the […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil & Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
March 4, 2021 | By: Gil Troy & Tevi Troy

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Not long ago, Conservative Judaism was America’s largest and most vital Jewish denomination. Today, things are different; for many years now, the movement has been losing and not replacing its members. In a recent essay […]
Read MorePodcast: Gerald McDermott & Derryck Green on How Biblical Ideas Can Help Bridge America's Racial Divide
February 3, 2021 | By: Gerald McDermott & Derryck Green

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Three times a day in prayer and each week on the Sabbath, Jews sustain and renew their special covenant with God. While no other nation has the same covenant as the Jews do, the idea […]
Read MorePodcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks about God and the Pandemic
January 13, 2021

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Most of our podcast guests, especially those focusing on religious issues, tend to look at the world in a traditional way―meaning, their habits of mind tend to be traditional and conservative. Many of our podcast […]
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